Editing Jack B. Yeats (section)

==Works==
In November 2010, one of Yeats's works, ''A Horseman Enters a Town at Night'', painted in 1948 and previously owned by novelist [[Graham Greene]], sold for nearly £350,000 at a [[Christie's]] auction in London. A smaller work, ''Man in a Room Thinking'', painted in 1947, sold for £66,000 at the same auction. His painting ''Sleep Sound'' (1955) was bought by [[David Bowie]] in 1993 for  £45,500 and sold at auction in 2016 for £233,000.<ref>{{Cite news |title=Jack B Yeats painting owned by David Bowie to be auctioned |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/art-and-design/jack-b-yeats-painting-owned-by-david-bowie-to-be-auctioned-1.2763710 |access-date=2022-08-10 |newspaper=The Irish Times |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Vallig |first=Marc O’Sullivan |date=2021-10-20 |title=Jack B Yeats: Celebrated artist, brother of WB, and Ireland's first Olympic medallist |url=https://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/artsandculture/arid-40724742.html |access-date=2022-08-10 |website=Irish Examiner |language=en}}</ref>

In 1999 the painting, ''The Wild Ones'', sold at [[Sotheby's]] in London for over £1.2m.<ref>{{cite news | title=Jack B Yeats paintings net £415,300 at auction | work=BBC Northern Ireland News (12 November 2010)| url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-11746655 | access-date=14 November 2010 | date=12 November 2010}}</ref> Whyte's Auctioneers hold the world record sale price for a Yeats painting, ''Reverie'' (1931), which sold for €1,400,000 in November 2019.<ref>{{cite news | title=Jack Butler Yeats painting makes €1.7m in 'white glove sale' | url=https://www.independent.ie/entertainment/theatre-arts/jack-butler-yeats-painting-makes-17m-in-white-glove-sale-38734101.html | access-date=4 August 2018 | date=29 September 2011}}</ref> The Model, Home of The Niland Collection, in Sligo cares for one of the best and most extensive collections of Jack B. Yeats's work in existence. It presents regular curated exhibitions of his work, notably, The Outside in 2011, Enter the Clowns - The Circus as Metaphor, 2013; The Music has Come, 2014; Painted Universe, 2018; Salt Water Ballads, 2021.